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Wednesday, March 29, 2006

FT2 Lesson 9: Resurrection of the Dead!!!

This lesson is HOT! Its almost 2 hours! And its e longest lesson in FT2! lol. Cant expect me to blog every single detail down..lol. well, ill try my best to 'summarize' this entire lesson. Its one of e best BS lessons ive been to :D for those whove been thru AFV or GHS....dun be spoiler, hahaha..jkjk =p *bleah lol

here goes....the lesson on the end-times:

ETERNITY: THE REALM OF GOD'S BEING

ish 57:15, heb 6:1-2

eternity is not the endless passage/extension of time, it has to do with the realm of BEING.
eternity is God's own mode of being. it is the realm in which He Himself dwells in.
God is not bound by the realm of time.
eternity is NOT time in endless duration!

eternity begins the moment time stops.
when we are born/created, time starts ticking in our life.
before time, we are ideas, imagination, creativity, plans, etc.
->Refer back Ps Kong's notes on Deja Vu - Glimpses of Eternity in my previous posts =)
likewise, when we die, time stops/ends, and eternity starts. -> our body dies, but not our spirit.
end of life = end of time

we are a triune being - body, soul, spirit.
spirit - has been saved (salvation + baptism in e Holy Spirit) - redemption
soul - (carnal nature/flesh) is being saved - sanctification
body - will be saved (glorification/resurrection of the dead)

2 UNIVERSAL APPOINTMENTS

1) Resurrection of the dead
2) Eternal Judgement (FT2 last lesson, lesson 10)
1 cor 15:51-53, heb 9:27, acts 17:30-31, rom 14:10-12, 2 cor 5:10

THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY

1 ths 5:23, gen 1:26, gen 2:7, eccl 3:18-21, ecc 12:7

1) The appearance of the spirit of man before God is not the FINAL JUDGEMENT, which will take place ONLY AFTER the resurrection. No resurrection, no judgement, cus we need a body to be judged according to our body and how we live. Therefore, until there is the resurrection, there will be no final judgement.

2) The spirits of the wicked and the ungodly can have NO PERMANENT ACCESS to the presence of God.

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE DEAD BETWEEN DEATH AND RESURRECTION

1) BEFORE Calvary - the CROSS period

a) In the NT, SHEOL is known as HADES.
-Hades is NOT hell. (hell is the final doom of the lost, hades is a temporary 'holding area' for the spirits of the dead).
-Sheol in hebrew is 'grave', or 'the Pit'.

b) Sheol, or Hades, is WITHIN the earth.
-ezek 26:20, 31:14-18, 32:18, Isa 14:9, 15

c) During e period before e Cross, all people (their spirits) went to SHEOL.
-even e righteous dead end up in Sheol.
-but e righteous dead and e wicked dead were separated in Sheol.
-luk 16:22

2) AT Calvary - What did Jesus do?

-1 Pet 3: 18-20, psm 16:8-11, eph 4:9-10, 1 cor 15:20, 22, eph 4:8
-Jesus went down to the lower realm of Sheol and 'proclaimed' (Gk. kerusso) His victory to the spirits of the wicked.
-On e 3rd day, His spirit ASCENDED from Sheol to the present world.
-His Spirit reunited with his soul and his body, which had been raised, to form a complete personality.

-He became the firstfruits of the resurrected body. PS: The first prototype =)
-Like a farmer, you can tell e condition of e rest of e fruits during harvest, just by looking at e firstfruits, if e firstfruits of an apple plantation tastes horrible, all e others will be horrible, etc.

3) AFTER Calvary - The destiny of christians TODAY at death.

-acts 7:55-60, 2 cor 5:6, 8, phil 1:21-24
-our body goes to the ground where it came from, our spirit goes back to God who we came from, because of what Jesus did.
-we will be escorted by the angels to Paradise.

ORIGINAL BODY REASSEMBLED AT THE RESURRECTION

-psm 139:13-16, matt 10:30, jhn 20:27, luk 21:16-18, 1 cor 15:4
-we will look the same, but the NATURE of our new body is different.
-e.g. Jesus still had e scars of e nails and spears, 'e very hairs on your head are numbered', 'not a hair of your head shall be lost'...

WHOSE BODIES WILL BE RESURRECTED AT THE END OF TIME?

In the OT, it foretells 3 main events about the resurrection:

1) Christ Himself will be raised from the dead.
2) Those who believe in Christ will share in His resurrection
3) There will also be a resurrection of the wicked for the purposes of judgement and punishment. (With what body? The bible didnt state).

Resurrection will occur in 3 successive phases:

1) Christ Himself
2) All true believers when Christ returns
3) The end of Christ's earthly millenial reign.

DEATH AND HADES ARE PERSONS

Death -> Dark Angel of Satan, Minister of Satan, claims the spirit of every unrighteous person that is separated from his/her body when e person dies.

Hades -> Dark Angel of Satan, Minister of Satan, Follows closely upon the heels of Death, takes charge of the spirits of the unrighteous claimed by Death and conducts them to their appointed place of imprisonment.

For more details on the specific phases listed above, sign up for FT2 or enrol in bible sch..hehe ^^ its jus too much to type..lols

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